I understand your frustration about it taking along time to read hiragana, but the only way you'll be able to do it faster is by actually doing it... a lot. Using romaji as a crutch will hurt you in the long run, not only your reading fluency, but also your pronunciation. I know it's a pain at first, but the more you read, the faster you will be able to read.

The thing you like needs が after it. Instead of とても すき, try だいすき.から can't be used to mean "because" at the beginning of a phrase or a sentence. It goes at the end of the "reason", and the "reason" usually comes first. おいしい たべもの は おいしい です から、 すき です。 Because good food is yummy, I like it.

Dark totoro wrote:たぬき はいしい と かわいい おもいます｡

tanuki wa oishii to kawaii omoimasu.

と is used to connect nouns. Adjectives are special and use a conjugation to string them together (a lot like verbs).

Use the quotive と with おもいます. IE, [what I think] to omoimasu[You are studying hard] to omoimasu. ^_^ (the brackets aren't actually used, I just added them for clarity...)

when you use an adjective with -kute, the "i" disappears: kawakute oishii.

It is like a coma, but we can read it as if there was an "and".Another observation: omoimasu usually is in -te form, because when you think something it is a long process you don't change your thoughts so quickly, when yoi like a thing you like it for a "long" time, so it can be considered as a "permanent or durative" action. so it would be "omotteimasu" (that would sound more natural to a japanese native speaker